Headwind

Pilot. Patriot. Rebel.

Had we been carrying a technician in the cockpit, he would have taken a bullet up his backside-a round had burst straight through the jump seat. Another bullet grazed the back of my seat, missing me by inches.

In Headwind: An African Air Odyssey, veteran aviator, Ian Rodwell, recounts his remarkable twin lives as a decorated rebel air force pilot and an international sanctions buster.

His story begins on a Northern Rhodesian (now Zambian) farm and ends with his departur...